The
Life of St. Bonaventure: published by the Parish of St. Bonaventure,
Bagnoregio, Italy (w. image) — Editor’s Note: When I was on pilgrimage last year in Europe, I
picked up a copy of this flyer in Italian, when I visited the tomb of the
Saint. It is reproduced here in electronic form, in English translation.

Sanctuaire
du Saint Bonaventure, Lyons, France, where the body of the Saint lay,
until it was thrown in the Saone River, by the French Revolutionaries. (St.
Bonaventure was buried in what is now the new Sacristy, to the left of the
Sanctuary: This church has some rare paitings, one depicting St.
Bonaventure’s miraculous raising of a boy from the dead.

Below you will find links to Latin, English,
French & Spanish editions of St. Bonaventure's Writings:

Please note, that The
Franciscan Archive publishes 2 of Bonaventure’s works. See here.

Also note Amazon.com sells this
publication: a plagiarized version of Br. Alexis Bugnolo’s translation of
the Itinerarium. It is a bold thing to steal another’s work, but even
more bold to sell it; but it is the consummation of boldness to do so,
stripping the work of the author’s name, not to mention footnotes!

Quite something else, when a Billion-dollar
company steals from a friar minor, who has nothing!— so please,
if you have an Amazon account, let them know that you do not appreciate what
they are doing.

Collationes
de Septem Donis S. Sancti
by St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio,Doctor of the Church

These 7 conferences on the gifts of the Holy Spirit are a succinct exposition
of the Seraphic Doctor's teaching on grace. Long used as a handbook on the
theology of grace in the Order of Friars Minor, it has had a profound influence
on the theology of all Franciscans during the last 800 years.

First Conference in Latin & English
(67 k) : HTML
-- A Preliminary Tract on Grace according to its rise, use and fruit
Second Conference in Latin & English (82k): HTML
-- On the Gift of the Fear of God
Third Conference in Latin & English (70k): HTML
-- On the Gift of Piety
Fourth Conference in Latin & English (78k): HTML
-- On the Gift of Knowledge
Fifth Conference in Latin & English (52k): HTML
-- On the Gift of Fortitude
Sixth Conference in Latin & English (78k): HTML
-- On the Fortitude of the Blessed Virgin
Seventh Conference in Latin & English (65k): HTML
-- On the Gift of Counsel
Eighth Conference in Latin & English (65k): HTML
-- On the Gift of Understanding
Ninth Conference in Latin & English (78k): HTML
-- On the Gift of Wisdom

This
English translation is literal and systematic, and like the translations of the
Itinerarium Mentis in Deum, above, it aims to preserve the original metaphors
employed by the Saint. The Latin text is taken from the edition at BEBF, and is
ostensibly that of the Quaracchi edition; though a few typographic mistakes
were discovered and corrected.

COMMENTARIA IN QUATUOR LIBROS SENTENTIARUM

The
Quaracchi Edition and The Franciscan Archive’s
Translation now have their own page

Images
of the pages of Vol. 2 of St. Bonaventure’s Commentary, w. text of Peter Lombard,
c/o University of Seville, Spain.

Itinerarium Mentis in DeumORThe Vision of the Poverello
in the Desert of Mt. Alverna
by St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio,Doctor of the Church

St. Bonaventure wrote this work as a concise
exposition of spiritual-theology for use of the friars of his order. Often it
is wrongly considered to be simply a treatise on epistemology; nevertheless it
does offer a profoundly catholic corrective to the method of critique, which
has so derogated the philosophies of knowledge since the days of Rene
Descartes.

This work
of the Seraphic Doctor discusses the extent and quality of knowledge in the
human mind of the God-man

The Five Feasts
of the Child Jesusby St. Bonaventure

This admirable work of the Seraphic Doctor
discusses growth in the spiritual life, and reveals the wonderful devotion this
Saint had for the Child Jesus, is currently available on the Web in French and
Spanish.